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Whiting Broiled

Broiled whiting fish seasoned with oil, chives, parsley, shallots, salt, pepper, and served with melted butter or white sauce with capers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Chive and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 450 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Whiting Broiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean the whiting fish.

  2. In a bowl, combine oil, chives, parsley, shallots, salt, and pepper.

  3. Soak the fish in the mixture for 2 hours, basting occasionally.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the fish over high heat, basting with the soaking oil.

  2. Serve with melted butter or a white sauce with capers.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Chive + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Chive + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Chive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Whiting fish
The main protein, which the marinade flavours and the broiling cooks through.
Oil
Carries the herbs and shallots and keeps the fish moist under high heat.
Shallots
Add a mild onion-like sharpness that mellows as the fish soaks.

The step that matters

Broil over high heat while basting with the soaking oil. Fish is delicate and dries out quickly under intense heat. Basting with the oil keeps the surface moist and helps it brown evenly, while the flesh cooks through before it flakes apart.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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